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Homesick causes Ramirez to quit Taiwan team
Taiwanese baseball club The Rhinos say former major league slugger Manny Ramirez is leaving the club after only 49 games because he misses his family in New York. The Rhinos said it unsuccessfully tried to keep Ramirez in Taiwan, including raising his monthly pay to almost US$60,000 from US$25,000, AP reports. Ramirez signed up to play the March to November season with the Rhinos in Kaohsiung, ...
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Five young Taiwanese universities ranked among worlds top 100
London, June 20 (CNA) Five Taiwanese institutions have been included in the second Times Higher Education rankings of the world's top 100 universities under 50 years old, led by National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) in 37th place. The performance of NSYSU, however, lost some of its luster compared with last year, when it was ranked 30th. The other four are National Taiwan University of ...
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Ramirez quits Taiwan baseball after 49 games
Manny Ramirez is leaving Taiwanese team The Rhinos after just 49 games because the club says he misses his family in New York. The Rhinos said it tried to keep the 12-time All-Star in Taiwan, including raising his monthly pay to almost $60,000 from $25,000. Ramirez signed to play the March-to-November season with the Rhinos in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. The team's website said the ...
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Speeding blamed for Taiwan road accident
Speeding caused a road accident that occurred around 2 pm Wednesday in Taiwan, leading to one local tour guide killed and seven mainland visitors injured, said local road authorities.The excessive speed caused the bus skid and hit side slope after veering off the road in southwestern Taiwan's Chiayi County. The event date recorder on the bus revealed that the speed at the time of the ...
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Fishing boat capsizes off Taiwan 6 rescued
/enpproperty--> TAIPEI - Six crew members have been rescued after their fishing boat capsized off the coast in northern Taiwan's Keelung city on Wednesday, according to local cost guard authorities. The accident happened after the Yilan-registered ...
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1 dead 8 injured in Taiwan road accident
/enpproperty--> TAIPEI - One person died and eight others were injured in a road accident that occurred Wednesday in central Taiwan's Alishan Scenic Area, a local travel agency said. A bus fell off a roadside mountain slope at 2 pm, killing a tour guide and injuring eight tourists from the Chinese mainland, the agency said. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, according to the ...
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Taiwanese delegation says Perak is a good place for investors
Official dinner: Dr Zambry (second from left) listening intently to the conversation by Taiwanese delegates who visited him at his official residence ...
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Xaxis Launches in Taiwan Bringing Multi-Platform Audience Buying to In-Market Advertisers
NEW YORK & TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Xaxis, the world's largest audience buying company, announced today the launch of operations in Taiwan. The move builds upon the company's ongoing global expansion, following the debut of new office locations in Hong Kong and Thailand during Q1 2013. Xaxis has appointed former Yahoo! executive K.C. Pan to lead the new office as ...
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Henry topped in a Taiwanese music chart
Henry's first solo album, 'Trap', topped in Taiwanese music website, 'KKBOX'. On June 7th, Henry's first mini album, 'Trap', was released through different online music websites, and it tipped in Korean Music Album TOP100 Weekly Chart and Korean Music TOP 100 Chart. Previously, Henry has been receiving a great love from fans in China along with other ...
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MLB Roundup Ramirez leaves Taiwan Rodriguez visited by drug probe suspect
Manny Ramirez is off the roster of the EDA Rhinos in Taiwan and reportedly will leave the country on Thursday. The 41-year-old Ramirez played 49 games for the Rhinos in the Chinese Professional Baseball League and hit .352 with eight home runs and 43 RBIs in 206 plate appearances. Ramirez's contract reportedly has an opt-out clause that allows him to pursue other opportunities, and there ...
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Manny Ramirez leaves Taiwan might head to Japan to continue career
the previously indispensable Manny Does Taiwan blog reports that Ramirez has been removed from the roster of the EDA Rhinos, his team in Taiwan, and might be looking for work in ...
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Manny Ramirez to leave his Taiwanese baseball team
Manny Ramirez left his Taiwanese baseball team, possibly to head to Japan. (AFP/Getty Images) Manny Ramirez is leaving his Taiwanese baseball team, the EDA Rhinos, possibly to pursue opportunities to play professionally in ...
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Must-See Video Taiwanese Animators Take on the Racist Redskins
The resulting animated video, titled "Redskins name is racist against Native Americans and a disgrace to NFL," is, well, something that must be seen to be believed. NMA ...
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Hawaiian Airlines to open Taipei to Honolulu flights
TAIPEI -- Hawaiian Airlines will start offering non-stop services from Taipei to Honolulu from July to cash in on increased passenger numbers since the U.S. began extending visa-free treatment to Taiwanese nationals, the company said ...
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Taiwan and China look to create unified LED light technical standard
TAIPEI -- The Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Association (TLLIA) signed a letter of intent with its Chinese counterpart in Guandong province on a proposal to jointly promote a unified technical standard for LED lighting ...
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Eslite Bookstore plans to establish its newest store in Shanghai by 15
TAIPEI -- Eslite Spectrum Corp., the operator of Taiwan's leading book chain Eslite Bookstore, announced yesterday that it would establish a foothold in Shanghai by ...
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Equal visitation rights a must for cross-strait offices success DPP
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The cross-strait representative office bill should not be passed today if equal visitation rights are not included in the proposal, said main opposition party legislators ...
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Seminar explains cross-strait service pact
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Ahead of the signing of a service industry trade agreement by cross-strait counterparts this Friday, governing bodies and trade associations yesterday staged a seminar, in an attempt to explain the purpose of the deal to the ...
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Woman arrested for striking Swiss student
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Prosecutors indicted a woman surnamed Lu yesterday for forceful entry, intimidation and damages after she was arrested for allegedly slapping and kicking a foreign male student from Switzerland over a one-night ...
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Lawmakers present bill to assist the nations charitable food banks
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Two legislators have launched a food bank bill to help charity operations feed more than 350,000 people living below the poverty line in ...
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High pay proximity to home draw Filipinos
TAIPEI -- The plight of Filipinos in Taiwan has been carefully scrutinized during an ongoing diplomatic spat over the past month between Taipei and ...
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HTC unveils new flagships with Butterfly S Desire 600
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Handset maker HTC yesterday unveiled two new handsets, the Butterfly S, the company's latest flagship model since the New HTC One, and the Desire 600, a lower-priced offering for the mid-range ...
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Taiwans export orders forecast to fall in May on mainland slowdown
TAIPEI--The value of export orders received by companies in Taiwan will fall in May on an annual basis for the fourth straight month because of an economic slowdown in China, the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) predicted ...
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Acer Inc. seeks boost to make up for embarrassing Q2 figures
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Acer Inc. Wednesday said it expects its shipment volume to be flat in the second quarter and is moving at full tilt toward the high-end PC market to boost profitability, saying the transformation might take 2-3 ...
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More Taiwanese surf YouTube using mobile devices Google
TAIPEI -- Taiwan has a higher-than-global-average rate of viewing YouTube videos on mobile devices, because of the high penetration of smartphones and tablets in the region, Google Inc.'s Taiwan branch said on ...
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Taiwan investing in biotech sector
Taiwan’s economy has seen massive growth in the last few decades, but one industry has been in decline and a development project by the Academia Sinica is expected to reverse that decline, once environmental issues have been cleared up.
Taiwan is one of the Four Asian Tigers; this little island off the coast of mainland China has experienced rapid development in just a few decades and has become a major hub of manufacturing, high-tech industry, shipping and tourism. Read more
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